While Chakotay and his away team investigate a storm-ravaged rainforested planet, Chakotay flashes back to a trip he made as a disgruntled teen, into the rainforest with his father, searching for their ancestors. At that time, they found the ‘sky-spirits’, which meant so much to his father, but nothing to him. He was about to leave the tribe and join Starfleet. But after his father died, he took up the cause and bore the tattoo his father did. Here, in this unlikely place, he discovers the real ‘sky spirits’, the aliens that visited earth and shared genetic info with indigenous people. He understands the full picture, and he is finally able to make spiritual contact with his father.
Meanwhile, the doctor is showing no compassion for sick people in pain. Kes is appalled and suggests that he should know what it feels like to be sick. The doctor complies and gives himself a 29 hour flu, but when hour 30 comes and he is still very sick, he begins to feel lost, helpless, like he is fading away – just what he needed, and all because Kes reprogrammed the flu to run a bit longer than the doc expected.
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